Fresh and Stimulating
WELL established now as part of the 1YA morning programme is the not very accurately named "Breakfast Symphony." This provides an oasis of good, bright music in that desert of early morning offetings, where the bones of defunct musical comedies crumble into dust and the wild wolves howl as they rend the flesh from expiring crooners. Whoever selects these short pieces of classical music exercises careful discrimination. The mood is just right for that time of day-fresh, gay and stimulating. It is possible that, apart from gilding the day’s beginning for those who like such music, the "Breakfast Symphony" may help to persuade others that "classical music" is not all lugubrious and solemn. There is a certain price to be paid for the privilege of hearing this session-truncated works, the announcement of the time through the music, and the incongruity of "My Honey Bee" after Mozart-but it is little enough when one can now begin thé. day with, say, two movements of Beethoven's Second Symphony. Afd, in some ways, I think the restricted time may have its advantages in keeping the compiler on his toes and sending him seeking for the right miusic down little-trodden ways.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 549, 30 December 1949, Page 8
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199Fresh and Stimulating New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 549, 30 December 1949, Page 8
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